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[MDaleDDF]

It's Friday.   It's Halloween.   And I never need a reason to be off task on a Friday anyways.

How about some scary food moments in history for Halloween?

Just came across this one yesterday, crazy.   Poisoned sweets in England back in the day.   The Bradford Sweets Poisoning.   20 killed:

 

https://en.wikipedia...weets_poisoning

[GMO]

It's worth looking up on "A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons" published in the early 1800s.  Shows that we were looking at food fraud long before we were looking at unintentional food safety issues.  (At least in the UK because of early industrialisation.)

[Scampi]

Typhoid Mary   A reminder to all why communicable diseases and food handling don't go together like chocolate and peanut butter do!

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[MDaleDDF]

Typhoid Mary   A reminder to all why communicable diseases and food handling don't go together like chocolate and peanut butter do!

I've heard of Typhoid Mary, but never actually read about it.   Just did a quick wiki read and holy crap!   Lol....that's a really good one, sheesh. 

[Lynx42]

Yesterday I learned of the relationship between wasps and fig pollination.  

I know it's a natural process, but is still creepy to think about.  

[qa_maddy]

The Melamine Milk Scandal in China was one of the first big food fraud cases I remember reading in college that really got to me just because it was so far reaching and had such a significant impact on the industry overall. 

 

https://en.wikipedia...se_milk_scandal

[Lynx42]

The Jack in the Box e. coli outbreak.  I wasn't effected because my family didn't eat there, but all the stores in my area were linked to people who got sick. 

I still rarely eat there and always get chicken.   

[GMO]

Cadbury's salmonella in the UK.

 

Not because it was an awful incident, (but it was), but because consumers didn't leave the brand in droves.  It was / is such a British institution, albeit it was eventually sold to Kraft and became Mondelez, people in the UK don't know that instinctively and just assume it's all made in Birmingham (Bourneville) in the Victorian factory set up by Quakers.

[Scampi]

Yesterday I learned of the relationship between wasps and fig pollination.  

I know it's a natural process, but is still creepy to think about.  

 

but I love (D) fig newtons!!!!!

[TimG]

but I love (D) fig newtons!!!!!

I also like fig newtons. Something tells me not to research this..

[kfromNE]

I also like fig newtons. Something tells me not to research this..

 

Civet coffee. That's another one you shouldn't research 

[TimG]

Civet coffee. That's another one you shouldn't research 

That one I know all about and am still curious to try it. 

Surprisingly it's the price point stopping me. I am too cheap, and if I really like it, it will hurt me every time I order more.

[jfrey123]

Civet coffee. That's another one you shouldn't research 

 

Raise you one regarding coffee.  Saw a YT Short of a man who was handling large cockroaches for some type of kid group presentation.  He shared with the kids that people who routinely handle cockroaches will eventually develop an allergy, where he can break out in hives on his skin if he doesn't wear gloves.  When he developed this allergy, he suddenly found he was having problems with pre-ground coffee.  Whether he brewed it at home, or went out to Starschmucks or Dunkin' Donuts, coffee started almost universally giving him hives.

 

Then he learned about the FDA's Food Defect Levels, specifically that pre-ground coffee is permitted to contain 4-6% of insect fragments by weight.

There Are Ground-Up Cockroaches in Your Morning Coffee

 

Good morning, and cheers!

[kfromNE]

Raise you one regarding coffee.  Saw a YT Short of a man who was handling large cockroaches for some type of kid group presentation.  He shared with the kids that people who routinely handle cockroaches will eventually develop an allergy, where he can break out in hives on his skin if he doesn't wear gloves.  When he developed this allergy, he suddenly found he was having problems with pre-ground coffee.  Whether he brewed it at home, or went out to Starschmucks or Dunkin' Donuts, coffee started almost universally giving him hives.

 

Then he learned about the FDA's Food Defect Levels, specifically that pre-ground coffee is permitted to contain 4-6% of insect fragments by weight.

There Are Ground-Up Cockroaches in Your Morning Coffee

 

Good morning, and cheers!

 

   I couldn't resist with the emoji. Good to know my coffee has protein in it.